The Activity of Perception

Dillon: Brent doesn't seem to mean the acquisition of sense information at extraordinarily raw level. He says perception is a paradox in that you can't have a perceived object without a perceiver. But at the same time, perception always involves, he says, a beo of what is actually given. What prohibits me from treating my perception as an inte tual act is that an intellectual act would grasp the object either as possible or as necessary - but in perception, it is real.